Readers react to city manager proposal

Cities like Eau Claire, Racine and Sheboygan employ a city administrator to manage operations.

This proposal has merit and should be subjected to a cost-benefit analysis. Expert leadership and training can end up saving funding and create efficiency!

- John Enk

I think Wausau is doing just fine spending my property tax dollars without another highly paid city employee.

- Ken Wanta

This conversation should be about improving the function of our system. The real issues are transparency, thoughtful, strategic, futuristic planning. Avoiding costly mistakes like Thomas Street. It's about setting priorities, achieving goals and providing positive leadership.

- Duane Maatz

No, we don't need to pay $100,000 to someone the public has no power over.

- Lanore J. Rusch

If we reduced the mayor's position to part time like City Council and paid the mayor about the same as the council president with no benefits, then we would almost have all the money we needed to pay an administrator. Once we have an administrator there is no need for a full-time mayor.

- Chris Filtz

I'm not sure but if you ask me, hiring an administrator in our city seems more wasteful than anything. Maybe we just need a new mayor who's a former administrator.

- Dan Graveen

Whether you like the mayor or not is not so much the point; the complexities of running a government of the type needed in Wausau would be hard for any politician. I lean toward the idea of a professional administrator as this debate moves forward.

- Ed Marek

A number of the surrounding suburban communities have a municipal administrator, such as the town of Rib Mountain, the city of Mosinee and the village of Weston.

- Andrew Plath

Why should the city taxpayers have to pay a city administrator to do the mayor's job?

- Mary Rothmeyer

The challenge to those who support the idea will be to demonstrate its benefits. The costs will be fairly easy to calculate. The benefits will have to be based on assumptions, stated or unstated.

- William Meyer

Will the administrator replace the mayor? What will be his duties? Who will have the final say over any matter, if you keep the mayor? Is $100,000 a legitimate salary for an administrator in a city the size of Wausau in north central Wisconsin?

- Melanie Clark

To read more reader responses, visit this story at www.wausaudailyherald.com/opinion. Draft versions of Sunday editorials are posted online on Wednesday afternoon for feedback and reader reaction.

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Readers react to city manager proposal

This proposal has merit and should be subjected to a cost-benefit analysis. Expert leadership and training can end up saving funding and create efficiency!

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